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Synopsis

As he rescues a victim of Cottonmouth's vengeance, Luke remembers his earlier life and the conspiracy that led to his superhuman strength.

Plot

While trapped in the rubble, Cage reminisces about his past as Carl Lucas and his incarceration at Seagate Prison, a private detention facility run by C.O. Albert Rackham. He befriends fellow inmate Squabbles, develops an attraction to psychologist Dr. Reva Connors, and is forced to engage in illegal ring fights by Rackham, and crossed paths with inmates Alvarez and Comanche. Lucas and Connors plan to expose Rackham's activities, which includes allowing an illegal experimental procedure on inmates in exchange for reduced sentences. Rackham learns of this by torturing Squabbles to death, and has Lucas brutally beaten. Connors convinces Dr. Noah Burstein, the scientist conducting the experimental procedures, to perform the procedure on Lucas, a submersive "bath" designed to cause rapid healing. Rackham sabotages the experiment, and the resulting accident instead gives Lucas superhuman strength and invulnerability. He escapes and adopts the identity of Luke Cage. In the present, Cage manages to pull himself and Connie out of the rubble and reveals his abilities to the media.

Trivia

Cage spots metal headgear and bracelets after getting his powers, a yellow shirt and blue jeans that he wore in the comics as Power Man. He's accidentally dressed in a similar outfit after his escape from prison, and when he sees himself in a window, he says "You look like a fool".

When used in the wreckage of the restaurant, Cage's phone shows Thursday, November 5, which fell on that day of the week in 2015.

Music

(Flashback) Luke Cage thanks Reva Connors for saving his life and she in turns thanks him for changing hers, then they come up with a new name for him taken from quotations from Luke's preacher father; (present) Connie Lin is loaded into an ambulance.